a. rare. [f. STEREOTYPE sb. + -IC.] Pertaining to or having the character of a stereotype. † a. lit., as in stereotypic plate = stereotype plate. Obs. b. fig. Fixed, unchanging: = STEREOTYPE sb. 3 b, STEREOTYPED b.
1801. T. Jones, trans. Bugge’s Trav. Fr. Rep., xvi. 392. The newly invented stereotypic plates.
1802. Monthly Rev., XXXVIII. 498. The stereotypic art, as it is practised in the printing of books.
1884. Gronlund, Co-op. Commonw., i. 28. That other stereotypic definition of Capital … ‘accumulated Labor.’
1887. W. M. Taylor, Scott. Pulpit, 144. There is no need of adhering in that matter to any Quaker-like, stereotypic anachronism.
Hence Stereotypically adv., † (a) by means of stereotypes (obs.); (b) by a stereotyped phrase, etc.
1802. Sk. Paris, II. lxvi. 357. The French tables of Logarithms, printed stereotypically.
1864. W. J. Fitzpatrick, Mem. Abp. Whately, I. 332. ‘What is the laziest letter in the alphabet?’ His neighbour … responded stereotypically, ‘Give it up!’
